China has been stepping up Ebola prevention measures in Guangdong province, home to Asia’s largest African population, Reuters reported. As many as 190 flights per month travel between Guangdong and Africa, resulting in more than 60% of passengers arriving on the mainland from West Africa landing in Guangdong. With China’s biggest trade exhibition, the Canton […]
Category: Health Care
China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission has ordered a review of public health facilities to assess their ability to deal with Ebola should the need arise, South China Morning Post reported. The commission asked local authorities to keep and share databases of people who had been in close contact with suspected and confirmed Ebola […]
As Beijing continues its push to privatize its healthcare system, a shortage of doctors is increasingly becoming a problem, Reuters reported. Although nearly half of China’s 24,700 hospitals are private, a June Deutsche Bank report found that 84% of in-patients were still coming through public facilities. A major contributor to this disparity is the lack […]
Long way from home
China hopes to improve services and introduce competition to its tightly regulated health care sector by launching a pilot project to set up foreign-funded hospitals in seven mainland cities or provinces, South China Morning Post reported, citing a Tuesday statement by the Ministry of Commerce. The project is part of the national strategy to create […]